Perverse Modernities Arresting dress: cross-dressing, law, and fascination in nineteenth-century San Francisco
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Book
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ISBN 10
0822357585
ISBN 13
9780822357582
Category
History
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Publication Year
2015
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Pages
x, 210 pages
Subject
Cross-dressing California San Francisco History 19th century. Cross-dressers Legal status, laws, etc. California San Francisco History 19th century. San Francisco (Calif.) Social life and customs 19th century.
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Abstract
In 1863, San Francisco's Board of Supervisors passed a law that criminalized a person's appearing in public in 'a dress not belonging to his or her sex.' Adopted as part of a broader anti-indecency campaign, the cross-dressing law became a flexible tool for policing multiple gender transgressions, facilitating over one hundred arrests before the century's end.
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